Pavee Point this week welcomed the completion of hearings at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice and Equality on the issue of Traveller ethnicity. The Committee heard from Traveller organisations in April 2013. In...
A full day Mental Health Matters training was held in Pavee Point on November 18th, facilitated by Mental Health Ireland. About 27 staff and participants from various programmes in Pavee Point attended the training,...
On Monday November 4th, Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre, with NUIM’s Department of Applied Social Sciences hosted a Data Collection seminar in Dublin. With over 100 people in attendance, speakers Claire Fernandez from...
The 4th TDN meeting of 2013 initially scheduled for 26 November has been cancelled. We will reconvene in late February 2014 at a date to be determined. Please contact a member of the Drug...
The Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse recently published an article that Siobhan Cafferty, former Pavee Point Drugs Programme Coordinator, co-authored with researchers from the Health Research Board, pertaining to Travellers accessing addiction services...
PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY TO HIGHLIGHT THE FAILURE TO DELIVER ON TRAVELLER-SPECIFIC ACCOMMODATION, MONDAY 25TH NOVEMBER Time: 2:30-4:30pm (Housing Strategic Policy Committee Meeting at 4pm) Location: Outside Fingal County Council Offices, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15 Blanchardstown Traveller Development Group would like...
On 21st October a Well Women morning was held at Pavee Point in Partnership with the Maire Keating Foundation. Thirty Traveller women from the Dublin area attended the event which began with a presentation...
Do you work with young Travellers? Are you interested in delivering culturally appropriate relationship and sexuality education? Do you want to engage in thought provoking conversation to challenge myths and misinformation and properly inform...
The Education Programme recently submitted to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection relating to a possible Education (Admissions to School) Bill. In the submission, Pavee Point argues that enrollment policies create...
